Voters elected Tearman Spencer as Milwaukee’s new city attorney, ending Grant Langley’s nearly four decades in the role.
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Read More »Voters elected Tearman Spencer as Milwaukee’s new city attorney, ending Grant Langley’s nearly four decades in the role.
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Read More »The candidates running for Milwaukee city attorney argued at a Milwaukee Bar Association forum on Friday whether it's time for a shakeup in leadership at the city attorney's office.
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Read More »The Milwaukee city attorney is recommending a $5 million settlement of 14 federal lawsuits alleging illegal strip searches by Milwaukee police.
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Read More »Milwaukee's city attorney is recommending the city pay $95,500 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging an illegal body cavity search of a drug suspect by a former police officer.
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Read More »The Milwaukee Common Council won't appeal a jury’s finding that the city is liable for sewer backups in more than 100 homes in 2008.
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Read More »Milwaukee’s attorneys are urging the Common Council to pay almost $1 million rather than appeal a verdict finding the city liable for damage when raw sewage flooded multiple homes in 2008.
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Read More »Problems at the bottom of City Hall could further delay Milwaukee city attorneys’ return to the top.
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Read More »Milwaukee’s city attorney had to try five times to win Common Council approval to move his office back into City Hall. Now that construction is poised to start, some aldermen are rethinking that decision.
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Read More »Hearings are set for January in the lawsuit filed by police and fire unions against the city of Milwaukee over residency requirements for city employees.
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Read More »A 15-year-old and two other black males are suing Milwaukee police over allegations that white officers conducted or oversaw illegal strip searches on them.
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Read More »Milwaukee city officials cannot enforce residency requirements until a court hears a motion for injunction from the rules’ opponents.
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Read More »Patricia Hutter, a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, was appointed to the Wisconsin Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth's Board of Directors.
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Read More »Those are not busy city attorneys, pressured by deadlines and rushing around the hallways on the 8th floor of Milwaukee’s City Hall.
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Read More »A woman who was raped three years ago by a Milwaukee police officer responding to a 911 call she made has filed a lawsuit against him, the city, police department and police chief.
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Read More »The city of Milwaukee filed a petition Tuesday to intervene in a lawsuit alleging Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining law is unconstitutional.
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Read More »A Milwaukee lobbyist is accusing the city of violating the spirit of a new state law that bans local bid preferences. Richard Wanta, executive director of the Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association, said the Legislature clearly meant to ban local preferences ...
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Read More »MILWAUKEE (AP) — A second man who was wrongly convicted of a murder that was later linked to a serial killer has sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department, saying detectives framed him. William Avery, 39, was released ...
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